No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges